Alexandra Kosteniuk
Number of games in database: 1,166
Years covered: 1994 to 2016
Last FIDE rating: 2537(2519 rapid, 2576 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2557Overall record: +319 -195 =257 (58.0%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
395 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

A WGM since age 14, an IM at 16, and a GM at 20, Kosteniuk has featured prominently in various regional and world age title competitions, including winning the Girls U10 European Championship in Herculane in 1994, the Girls Under 12 European Championship in Rimavaska Sobota in 1996, and the Girls Under 12 World Championship in Minorca in 1996. In 2001, at the age of 17, she was runner up to Zhu Chen for the Womenís World Championship. In 2000 and 2004, Kosteniuk was second in the Russian Womenís Championships but went one better in 2005 when she won that Championship with a score of 9/11 and a 2691 performance rating. Other prominent tournament successes include winning the First European Womenís Championship that was held in Dresden in 2004, and equal second behind Koneru Humpy in the 2005 North Urals Cup. In 2010 she came fifth in the Russian Women's Championship and in 2011 she won the Moscow Open 2011B - Young GMs with 7/9. Also in 2011, she won the Swiss Women's Championship. In 2013 she won both the womenís and menís Swiss titles.

Kosteniuk became the inaugural Fischerandom (Chess960) Women's World Champion in 2006, and successfully defended her title in 2008 against Kateryna Lahno. There did not appear to be a Fischerandom world championship in 2010, and Kosteniuk is therefore still the women's world titleholder for this form of chess.

She has captured the public's eye by appearing in a Russian film, doing many product promotions, fashion modeling, and appearing in fashion magazines. She produces a popular series of chess podcasts, and maintains a chess website http://www.kosteniuk.com/

I play the Fred: You're right, what am I doing? Ideas this awesome must be capitalized upon. So I take it back! Everyone, cease and desist! None of you may use "Foxy Oxie" without the express written consent of <I play the Fred>.

Can't wait for the huge royalty checks to start pouring in. I suppose I'll cut <HeMateMe> in on some of this for his invaluable financial advice.

There, you all just watched someone get wealthy today. Tell all your friends!

wordfunph: <"I remember that at 12, I was very superstitious. If won a game, for the following round I tried to follow the same route to the board and to wear the same clothes. I would write down the moves with the same pen, and of course, I carried a number of little lucky talismans.">

HeMateMe: That is quite the resemblance. I was further convinced when she and the "Merry Men" were playing blindfold chess atop horseback, as they rode to intercept the next shipment of the King's gold!

Joshka: <HeMateMe><I'd like to see the rest of the photo> I was there, in fact that's where my avatar was taken. She was wearing a black dress with white printed dots. Karpov was sitting to her left, where they were conducting a book signing.

HeMateMe: No Kosteniuk games yet, from the 2012 Olympiad. Tardy reporting, or has she somehow missed the first two rounds? Tsk, Turkey should have asked the London olympic organizers how to put on a multi country event.

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